This will be a to-do list for User:Keefer4.
(incomplete subdivisions, but thoughts so far...)
Hope you don't mind me adding comments (brief ones).
Skookum1 23:07, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
Category:Geographic regions of British Columbia
Remaining issue is the Alaska Highway Corridor west from Muncho Lake to Lower Post, where the highway hits the Yukon and BAM!! you're in Watson Lake after a couple of thousand miles of not much...that's not really part of the Cassiar District though in administrative terms it probably is; what is it - the Liard? But that's a region that spans BC, YT and the NWT. Fort Nelson's part of the Peace Country, though not in the basin of the Peace River right? i.e. by dint of being in the Peace River Block, that sector of land added to the colony in whatever year it was (and too bad Douglas didn't get his way and get Alberta as he was trying to wangle out of London...). Atlin's another one that's eventually going to have a lot of entries; I'm always tempted to throw Skagway and Haines and Hyder and Dyea into the Category:Colony of British Columbia cat (must exist by now - ?? thought Fishhead64 would have done it if anyone), just for fun, as they weren't officially part of the United States until 1903 and were at least nominally part of BC, and in real-use terms were until the onslaught of the Americans who overran what was supposed to be the Colony of British Columbia, and before that oh-so-briefly the Stikine Territory, which yeah, used to include part of Yukon too. Always seen it as a pity that WAC didn't grandstand his way to semi-independence over the Columbia River Treaty and walk away with the Yukon as part of the deal ;-) Mind you, I've always seen it as a pity that London waffled on the Columbia River boundary, and demurred during the Civil War on preparations to retake Puget Sound if war broke out between the UK and US on the Atlantic, as it was about to during the Trent Affair...then there's this business of the Russian Navy showing up in SF during the Civil War, and that for sure made the Royal Navy go "no way" to a Puget Sound agenda, even had London shown interest (unless they sent another squadron and some landing troops, for war in earnest....but that wasn't London's style). So, all the categories look great; I see you chose Similkameen Country and maybe that's best for the article too; Similkameen District can even be a mini-disambig if I can think of a third entry, maybe just the Boundary-Similkameen District, even if that's ultimately a redirect to the electoral district (historically, early on, it was tied together, before the Okanagan and parts east were settled, though). "Country" is probably the safest usage in all cases because of confusion with the Land Districts and Regional Districts and Mining Districts; Cassiar Mining District and Stikine Mining District and Atlin Mining District and so on articles can exist, partly because we can dig up lists of officers/comissioners and also reported earnings, number of mines etc. Gotta get at Gold Commissioner, too....comlicated but to me "high" priority even to get done as a stub; the main colonial-era and early-provincial-era honcho out in the landscape, one-man government; and an interesting cast of characters, too. Skookum1 23:07, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
Precedent:
Category:SkyTrain, if land matters, why not sea?
Also,
South Ferry (Manhattan)
List of ferry terminals in British Columbia
The actual ferries to be added to
Category:BC Ferries, and their individual Class groupings.
Deletion discussion precedent--
Talk:Queen of Nanaimo.
Inclusion precedent:
List of Washington State ferries with links to individual ferries,
MV Caribou:
And don't forget to include [[Wikiproject Ships]] on each of these items' talkpages! Skookum1 07:24, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
Precedents: Category:Hotels in Toronto, Olympic Club Hotel
Yeah, OK, but I meant in terms of pictures and stuff; there's BC Arch ones, unfortunately not 100 yrs old, in BC Arch of the Gibbs Creek disaster in the '20s, which was the first big wreck on the PGE, and someone sent me some pics of diesels being hauled out of Seton Lake, at the big bluffs); and for some reasons some unknown person at some point sent me a vid-link for the recent CNR dumping near Spences Bridge. BTW a neat article for someone to do (hint, hint) is Siska rail bridges or Siska rail crossings, whatever format fits any guidelines; I don't think Alexandra Suspension Bridge has been written although it may have a prov park article; has anyone done Hell's Gate Airtram - I know there's Hell's Gate (British Columbia) or Hell's Gate (Canada) as I think I put an image there. Skookum1 22:32, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
This will be a to-do list for User:Keefer4.
(incomplete subdivisions, but thoughts so far...)
Hope you don't mind me adding comments (brief ones).
Skookum1 23:07, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
Category:Geographic regions of British Columbia
Remaining issue is the Alaska Highway Corridor west from Muncho Lake to Lower Post, where the highway hits the Yukon and BAM!! you're in Watson Lake after a couple of thousand miles of not much...that's not really part of the Cassiar District though in administrative terms it probably is; what is it - the Liard? But that's a region that spans BC, YT and the NWT. Fort Nelson's part of the Peace Country, though not in the basin of the Peace River right? i.e. by dint of being in the Peace River Block, that sector of land added to the colony in whatever year it was (and too bad Douglas didn't get his way and get Alberta as he was trying to wangle out of London...). Atlin's another one that's eventually going to have a lot of entries; I'm always tempted to throw Skagway and Haines and Hyder and Dyea into the Category:Colony of British Columbia cat (must exist by now - ?? thought Fishhead64 would have done it if anyone), just for fun, as they weren't officially part of the United States until 1903 and were at least nominally part of BC, and in real-use terms were until the onslaught of the Americans who overran what was supposed to be the Colony of British Columbia, and before that oh-so-briefly the Stikine Territory, which yeah, used to include part of Yukon too. Always seen it as a pity that WAC didn't grandstand his way to semi-independence over the Columbia River Treaty and walk away with the Yukon as part of the deal ;-) Mind you, I've always seen it as a pity that London waffled on the Columbia River boundary, and demurred during the Civil War on preparations to retake Puget Sound if war broke out between the UK and US on the Atlantic, as it was about to during the Trent Affair...then there's this business of the Russian Navy showing up in SF during the Civil War, and that for sure made the Royal Navy go "no way" to a Puget Sound agenda, even had London shown interest (unless they sent another squadron and some landing troops, for war in earnest....but that wasn't London's style). So, all the categories look great; I see you chose Similkameen Country and maybe that's best for the article too; Similkameen District can even be a mini-disambig if I can think of a third entry, maybe just the Boundary-Similkameen District, even if that's ultimately a redirect to the electoral district (historically, early on, it was tied together, before the Okanagan and parts east were settled, though). "Country" is probably the safest usage in all cases because of confusion with the Land Districts and Regional Districts and Mining Districts; Cassiar Mining District and Stikine Mining District and Atlin Mining District and so on articles can exist, partly because we can dig up lists of officers/comissioners and also reported earnings, number of mines etc. Gotta get at Gold Commissioner, too....comlicated but to me "high" priority even to get done as a stub; the main colonial-era and early-provincial-era honcho out in the landscape, one-man government; and an interesting cast of characters, too. Skookum1 23:07, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
Precedent:
Category:SkyTrain, if land matters, why not sea?
Also,
South Ferry (Manhattan)
List of ferry terminals in British Columbia
The actual ferries to be added to
Category:BC Ferries, and their individual Class groupings.
Deletion discussion precedent--
Talk:Queen of Nanaimo.
Inclusion precedent:
List of Washington State ferries with links to individual ferries,
MV Caribou:
And don't forget to include [[Wikiproject Ships]] on each of these items' talkpages! Skookum1 07:24, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
Precedents: Category:Hotels in Toronto, Olympic Club Hotel
Yeah, OK, but I meant in terms of pictures and stuff; there's BC Arch ones, unfortunately not 100 yrs old, in BC Arch of the Gibbs Creek disaster in the '20s, which was the first big wreck on the PGE, and someone sent me some pics of diesels being hauled out of Seton Lake, at the big bluffs); and for some reasons some unknown person at some point sent me a vid-link for the recent CNR dumping near Spences Bridge. BTW a neat article for someone to do (hint, hint) is Siska rail bridges or Siska rail crossings, whatever format fits any guidelines; I don't think Alexandra Suspension Bridge has been written although it may have a prov park article; has anyone done Hell's Gate Airtram - I know there's Hell's Gate (British Columbia) or Hell's Gate (Canada) as I think I put an image there. Skookum1 22:32, 10 March 2007 (UTC)